Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Newness; novelty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Newness; novelty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable An
innovation ; anovelty . - noun uncountable Novelty;
newness .
Etymologies
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Inherited from the Middle English novitē ("an innovative practice"), from the Middle French novité ("novelty”, “change”, “innovation"), from the Latin novitās ("newness”, “novelty”; “rareness”, “strangeness”; “newness of rank”; “reformation"); cognate with the Italian novità, the Portuguese novidade, the Romanian noutate, and the Spanish novedad.
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Examples
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The uncertainty and ignorance of things to come, makes the world new unto us by unexpected emergencies; whereby we pass not our days in the trite road of affairs affording no novity; for the novelizing spirit of man lives by variety, and the new faces of things.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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